Example sentences of "[num] [subord] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Little real progress was achieved , however , and the FMLN broke off peace negotiations on Nov. 2 after a trade union headquarters was blown up by a car bomb [ see pp. 37037-38 ] .
2 A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them .
3 The other was not a delegate from his circuit of East London since he usually came last in the election ( except last year when he was ninth out of eight until a lady delegate became pregnant ) .
4 * Brazilian timber company Gethal Amazonia has been fined a record of £1.4 million after a helicopter survey revealed it had illegally chopped down Amazon rain forest trees
5 Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive .
6 Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive .
7 So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now .
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